This is a two stroke air compressor used on the trolleys I work with.

The part that sucks the air in.

>>87550
this goes here

This is a St. Louis Car Company duel moad streamlined trolley that can run on both overhead and third rail

>>87552
Third rail pickup goes here.

The Brill 529 in my first photo may be running by this fall if all goes according to plan. that's all for now.

>this whole thread

>>86782
I always felt the same - TT for operations, but I find S to be marvellous for detail. HO might just be the smallest scale which you can truly have realism, though.

>>86798
I dunno... the best contemporary N scale seems about par with where HO was at maybe 20 years ago. But you need watchmaker-like skills to customize it.

>>86794
Is that an EO class?

>>86822
Speaking of which, didyaknowthat Matthias Baldwin was a watchmaker before he turned his attentions to building locomotives?

>>86823

Yes, have a look on shapeways

It's too bad Japanese model trains are almost non-existent in TT. Otherwise I would already have switched, or else it's the scrap-building bandwagon for me.

Anyway, I'm an Japanese prototype N-scaler, but I still have plans for some H0e and H0j/m stuff. Somewhere in time, I'd also like to incorporate Nm with my N-gauge collection. Narrow gauge (almost) all the way baby!

HO scale! because you can find this cheap XD
G scale is good cause you can cuddle a locomotive! LOL

>cuddling your G scale locomotive

>cuddling your G scale locomotive

My Ideal Scale is O. Nothing like the feel and power of an O gauge train. Grew up with em' and never gonna give them up.

Old NYC subway cars being dumped into the ocean to become artificial reefs.

Makes sense to me. Gives smaller fish a place to hide, provides a structure where plants and shit can grow where there would otherwise be nothing but sand. Good thinking.

Stainless steel is worth a lot of money and the MTA is strapped for cash... This seems increadebely stupid.

I knew they did this with a bunch of Redbirds in the (mid?) 2000's, but I didn't realize it was still a thing.

>>87555 After a bit of light googling, it sounds like there's some money to be made from this, since these reefs lead to increased marine life (and therefore seafood). If the MTA was receiving some kind of compensation for this, it would make sense. Of course, that's if they're still doing this.

>>87483

>and I guess some BNSF executive train cars

More like METRA BNSF commuter cars.

>>87483

I like how it says "BURLINGTON" in the Zephyr font on the side

>>87495
Metra tried removing it, but commuters protested. Yeah, those original CB&Q bi-levels were built like stainless steel battleships, significantly more robust than other similar bi-levels: once, a pair of them ran all the way out to Denver.

>>87478
how about some Intercity swallow

inb4 SPSF

also lol nasa

>>87507
NASA does have a railroad, you know?

>>87536

>>87524

well ill be damned...what do they do, switch spaceship parts?

>>87545

should have looked at google first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Railroad

More humungous Canadian air filters.

Green Bay & Western in original livery.

GM&O rad 'em 'till they dropped. Only 4 made it to the ICG merger. Most of the rest went directly to scrap--not even worth trading in.

Peabody Coal looks like it belongs to some third world railway.

The "GN" unit on display at Schenectady was actually a L&HR unit.

Despite appearances, NP's were better maintained.

But SP&S's were better loved.

Unlike the north-west, RS-3's were virtually unknown in the south-west. Only Cotton Belt's served the Espee.

suddenly TEM-3 happens.

woops, fail. Meant TEM2.

>radiators gonna radiate

Those are some nice PVs.

>>87423
WTF Bear!?

Great shots! Love me some NS action.

>>87423
I do say, there appears to be a bear leaping out of the woods in this picture. It was quite amusing.

>>87466
It's the one that's on a date that makes sense :P

>>87474

We remember our war dead TWICE a year. That's how grateful we are.

That, or government employees and bankers just wanted another excuse to loaf about.

>>87477
Not quite: Memorial Day is for the fallen; Veteran's Day is for the survivors.

>>87477
Well, in all fairness, you're off remembering your dead (or spending a day pretending to remember that some people survived) we're swanning about taking a public holiday in the form of Victoria Day. Yay...ex-Queen...

>>87477

Ever noticed how there is always at least one government holiday a month in every month?

>>87496

Or twice in one month.

But there are none in August.

>>87514

>But there are none in August.

August 18: Bad Poetry Day. Crank up those Rod McKuen albums, baby!

No... no YouTube link. I'm not that cruel.

>>87522

But do all the government workers and bankers take the day off?

>>87530
It's August... they may show up, but they aint working.

>>87535

Haha, yeah!

Inb4 it never happens.

I also forgot to mention that the locomotive is in much better shape than the picture I originally posted shows. Here's the more current state of 3463.

FUCK YEA
Sticky this shit

>>87436
Why? It's not that great.

Come to think of it, I can't remember ever seeing ANYTHING being stickied here before.

Also here's a link to a progress album on their facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.228162227294734.47839.228154933962130&type=1

I'm sure that it will double-head with that Big Boy down in Texas they were going to "restore" for a supposed movie deal a couple of days ago.

They might be on to something. When peak oil hits, coal will still be plentiful.

>>87531

>When peak

uunh

Fascinating to be sure, but I don't think "modern steam" (read: locos 50 years old) can compete with the latest and greatest in diesel-electrics. I see hybridization as more likely. There just isn't the infrastructure for steam anymore at all. I was also under the impression that track and locomotive maintenance is much higher with steam as compared to diesel-electrics. Would be cool to see 3463 under steam though - I'm all for more big steam being restored (wish the 5300 at the B&O museum could see some of that action - I can dream right?).

I love the idea of getting 1) a modern(ized) steam locomotive 2) a running Hudson operating in America, but there is no way this will have any practical applications. I imagine the project will come to an indefinite halt at some point since this seems to be an extremely large undertaking by a very small group. It might behoove them to seek help from the Tornado group though.

<<The last attempt at 'modernized steam', the 5AT, has been sitting in limbo for some time.
http://www.5at.co.uk/

>>87482
Court ordered cease-and-desist.

>>87491

You? In legal trouble? No way!

>>87515
The ugly truth about Canada: Absolutely everything is, in some way, illegal.

>>87516

idk, man...Vancouver's becoming the next Amsterdam with all the weed spots and how the cops look the other way when it comes to them.

>>87519

>how the cops look the other way

Oh, they're not looking the other way; just compiling evidence for when someone has the temerity to be somebody. Selective non-enforcement is a powerful tool for controlling the masses. Lulls them into a false sense of security.

>>87519
Fun fact: The omnibus crime bill that the government passed last year has harsher penalties for pot, while the rest of the country looked up from their bowls and blunts and went "...huh?"

>>87521

I saw this at Proviso, and at first I thought that I would make a seperate thread for this, but no, dammit, this picture belongs here...

>>87526
Armour Yellow: your piss ought to be lighter.

Speaking of piss, have a genset.

>>87521

Clever.

Also gotta give Canada credit for their migras viewing every person at their gates as a potential menace to society and/or drain on public resources. Even more so that no one considers it racist.

>>87526

It's nice that Pedro cares so much about that. Do the employees have access to water on the job, then?

>>87383

I think that was probably brought over by our military during or after WWII, and stayed on through the Cold War at our facilities in Germany.

>>87384

Olive oil and ouzo don't make much for a GDP.

less anime, less politics, more trains

>>87484

>less anime
>less politics

You must be new here.

>>87486

Somewhere, a banhammer opens a sleepy eye as a fire springs to life in its belly...

trolliwahr

/rail/ needs moar Decauville tin-plate

PECORAMA!

www.pecorama.i nfo

760mm for 85km!

alsomap!

>>87494
dream big

>>87508
Common-carrier model railroad big?